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Fresh Pick | THE RECKLESS BRIDE by Stephanie Laurens
Fresh Pick / April 6, 2011

Black Cobra #4 November 2010 On Sale: October 26, 2010 Featuring: Rafe Carstairs; Loretta Michelmarsh 464 pages ISBN: 0061795194 EAN: 9780061795190 Mass Market Paperback $7.99  Add to Wish List Romance Historical Buy at Amazon.com The conclusion of the ultimate road trip: India to England. The Reckless Bride by Stephanie Laurens The final book in the Black Cobra Quartet He races to complete their mission against escalating odds–his task made more perilous when he loses his heart. She’s determined to defy convention and live a solitary life–until she tastes the reckless pleasure found only in his arms. Drawn together by fate, united by fiery passion, they pursue their shared destiny…one they’ll live to see only if they unmask the Black Cobra. Another exciting, sexually alluring and suspenseful novel in the Black Cobra Quartet series. Excerpt CHAPTER 1 November 24, 1822 Danube Embankment, Buda Rafe walked out of the office of the Excelsior Shipping Company, tickets for two passenger cabins on the Uray Princep, a riverboat due to start up the Danube two days hence, in his pocket. He glanced up and down the street, then strolled to where Hassan waited outside a nearby shop. Rafe tapped the pocket of the well-tailored,…

Erin Quinn | Celtic Legends: Blood Lust
Author Guest / April 6, 2011

Celtic legends often speak of warriors so overcome by bloodlust in battle that they are changed. The fury and killing, the peril of certain death, and the instinct to survive merge into something that overcomes the warrior’s humanity, leaving him a savage beast bent on destroying his enemy. Men who have lived through war recount the moments up to the first strike but often have no memory of what came after until it is all over and they wake, as if from a nightmare, to find themselves blood drenched and exhausted beyond belief. The Celts had a name for this phenomenon: Riastradh. Tiarnan, the hero of HAUNTING DESIRE, is no stranger to the frenzy of battle. His entire life has been spent defending his way of life, his family, his lands. If the memories of the bloody battles he’s fought had stayed with him, he would likely go mad. It is not until he meets Shealy O’Leary, HAUNTING DESIRE’s heroine who has traveled through time, that he learns why he is such a formidable warrior. When his enemies take Shealy from him, he will stop at nothing to get her back and that means embracing the beast within him and…